A Santo Domingo court has sent three people accused of the international crime of people trafficking to three months of pre-trial detention. They are all Migration personnel at the Las Americas International Airport: supervisor Maria Arias Castro, Servair travel supervisor Ramon Mayobanex Flores, and Willy Jonathan Pina.
According to the Public Prosecution Service, Pina recruited people in Azua and the surrounding area, charging them RD$250,000 for original Spanish passports in which the passport holder resembled the person travelling. He worked together with Castro and Flores whom he paid for the service of boarding them on the airline.
The ring was dismantled following intelligence and surveillance work by the National Investigation Department (DNI), which on 11 October 2015 stopped two people with Spanish passports in names other than their own, who were planning to travel to Brussels.
Another eight people are under investigation in connection with the case.
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